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SEIU Local 205 Service Employees International Union, Local 205 serves the hard-working men and women of Tennessee.

🍞🌹 Bread & Roses means honoring the people who keep our cities running.Every day, SEIU Local 205 members show up to do t...
10/02/2026

🍞🌹 Bread & Roses means honoring the people who keep our cities running.

Every day, SEIU Local 205 members show up to do the work our communities depend on. From our MNPS support staff pictured here, to public service workers across Nashville, Memphis, and Chattanooga, our members are behind so much of what keeps Tennessee moving.

They keep our schools operating. They keep our neighborhoods and public spaces cared for. They keep essential services running. They show up for our communities, day after day.

And the people who keep our cities running deserve more than just a thank you.

They deserve bread — fair wages, good benefits, and economic security.

And they deserve roses — dignity, respect, time with their families, and the ability to enjoy the communities they work so hard to serve.

Our members give so much to Tennessee. Together, we’re fighting to make sure the people who keep our cities running get their bread AND their roses. 🍞🌹

Come learn and celebrate one another in our continued fight for Bread and Roses at SEIU Local 205’s Activist Day and Din...
09/17/2026

Come learn and celebrate one another in our continued fight for Bread and Roses at SEIU Local 205’s Activist Day and Dinner! For more information, please reach out to your chapter leadership.

📬 Don’t forget—tonight is our FIRST Postcard Party! 📬Come join your union siblings, hang out, and help make sure as many...
09/14/2026

📬 Don’t forget—tonight is our FIRST Postcard Party! 📬

Come join your union siblings, hang out, and help make sure as many SEIU members as possible are registered to vote for this election cycle! 🗳️✊

Let’s get together, get some postcards written, and make sure our members’ voices are ready to be heard!

🌹 Celebrate Labor Week with SEIU Local 205! ✊From Labor on the Big Screen to Labor Day celebrations in Nashville, Knoxvi...
09/01/2026

🌹 Celebrate Labor Week with SEIU Local 205! ✊

From Labor on the Big Screen to Labor Day celebrations in Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga, there are plenty of opportunities this week to come together with union members, families, and friends to celebrate the power of working people!

This Labor Day, we celebrate what workers have won — and keep fighting for what we deserve.

For the bread, and for the roses, too. 🌹💜

Check out the flyers for details and join us!

Bread means more. And sometimes, winning more means showing up again and again — for ourselves and for each other — unti...
08/28/2026

Bread means more. And sometimes, winning more means showing up again and again — for ourselves and for each other — until the people in power have no choice but to listen.

During this year’s budget season, our members at Nashville General Hospital did exactly that.

More than 55 NGH members showed up at Metro Council on three separate occasions to make their voices heard. They had one-on-one conversations with Council members. They opened the doors of their workplace and invited elected officials to see NGH firsthand.

And they didn’t stand alone.

Members from across SEIU Local 205’s other chapters showed up in numbers, time and time again, standing in solidarity with NGH workers. Different workplaces, different chapters — but one union and one fight.

Together, we organized. Together, we showed up. Together, we spoke up.

And together, we won. 🌹

✊ A 2% retroactive one-time bonus, reaching back to July 2025.
✊ A 5% wage increase across the board.

That’s Bread: real money in our members’ pockets and recognition for the work they do every day.

But it’s also Roses.

It’s the dignity of workers having a voice. It’s the strength that comes from knowing your union siblings will stand beside you when it matters. It’s the understanding that a victory for one chapter is a victory for all of us.

This win would not have happened without NGH members refusing to give up — and without members from across our union standing shoulder to shoulder with them.

Three trips to Council. More than 55 NGH members. Members from across Local 205 standing in solidarity. Countless conversations. One huge victory.

This is what solidarity looks like. This is Bread & Roses. And this one is truly one for the books. ✊🌹

A true champion of working people.
08/26/2026

A true champion of working people.

“HELP! HELP! THEY ARE MURDERING US.”These words appeared on a broadside circulated during the 1912 Lawrence Textile Stri...
08/26/2026

“HELP! HELP! THEY ARE MURDERING US.”

These words appeared on a broadside circulated during the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike—the historic struggle that became forever connected with the call for “Bread and Roses.”

In Lawrence, Massachusetts, thousands of textile workers—many of them women and immigrants—walked off the job after a cut to their already meager pay. They worked long hours in dangerous mills, earning wages that left families struggling to survive.

When workers demanded better, they faced arrests, intimidation, militia, and violence. On January 29, 1912, Anna LoPizzo, a striking textile worker, was shot and killed during a confrontation between strikers and authorities. Her death became a stark reminder of just how dangerous standing up for workers could be.

Still, the strike continued.

This broadside was an appeal for solidarity and support, declaring:

“The Strike of Lawrence is Still On. Ten Thousand Men, Women and Children Are Still On the Fighting Line.”

The workers of Lawrence weren’t simply fighting for a few more dollars. Their struggle came to symbolize a demand for both bread—the necessities of life—and roses—the dignity and quality of life working people deserve.

More than a century later, we remember their struggle—and people like Anna LoPizzo—because the fight for dignity on the job continues.

Each week, we’ll share another piece of the history behind Bread & Roses and what that legacy means for working people today.

We want bread—and roses too. 🌹

Bread and Roses 🌹🍞Our Retiree Chapter knows that the fight for Bread and Roses does not end when you retire.At their rec...
08/24/2026

Bread and Roses 🌹🍞

Our Retiree Chapter knows that the fight for Bread and Roses does not end when you retire.

At their recent picnic, members came together to share food, fellowship, and community — but they also got to work. They discussed the fight to eliminate the grocery tax and helped prepare postcards to make sure our members are registered and ready to vote.

Because Bread means having what we need to live: affordable groceries, economic security, and a fair shot at a good life.

And Roses mean more than simply getting by. They mean community. Dignity. Time with one another. The ability to enjoy the life we have worked so hard to build.

Our retirees have spent their lives fighting for better — and they continue to show us that solidarity cannot stop.

We fight for the Bread. We fight for the Roses. And we fight to make sure every voice is heard.

🌹🍞✊

08/21/2026

Bread & Roses isn’t just about history—it’s about where we’re going.

Every new member, every workplace organized, every contract won, and every worker who finds their voice brings us one step closer to the future generations of workers deserve.

Together, we’re building that future.

🌹 Bread for justice. Roses for dignity. Together, we fight for both.

08/20/2026

Every right we enjoy today was won because workers before us refused to give up.

We honor those who came before us by continuing their fight—for fair wages, safe workplaces, respect on the job, and a better life for every working family.

🌹 Bread for justice. Roses for dignity. Together, we fight for both.

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521 Central Avenue
Nashville, TN
37211

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+16152275070

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